Barber-chair.



UNITED sTATEs NPATENT OEEIOE.

WALTER F. KOKEN AND GEORGE G. ANDERSON 3 OF ST.` LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNORS TO `KOKEN BARBERS SUPPLY COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATIONOF MISSOURI.

BARBER-CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patent-ea May e, 1919.-

i Application led November 18, 1918. Serial N o, 263,066.

To all whom 'it may Cof/wem.' p

Be 1t known that we, WALTER F. KOKEN and GEORGE Gr. ANDERSON, citizens of the United States, residing in the city of St.

a certain new and useful Improvement in Barber-Chairs, of which .the following is a full, clear, and eXact description," such as will enable others skilled in the art tO which it appertains to make and use the same.

` This invention relates to barber chairs of the type in which the seat of the chair can be raised and lowered.`

The object of our invention is to provide an eiicient barber chair of the general type referred to whose lower portion is artistic, free from exposed surfaces to which dirt will adhere, and of suchv design that it gives the impression of an unbroken or one-piece pedestal whenthe seat of the chair is in its raised position. y

Figure l of the drawings is a vertical secproved barber chair; and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cap` piece that is arranged at the upper end of the base member of the chair.

Referring;y to the drawings which illustrate the preferred form of our invention, A designates the base member of the chair, which preferably consists of a hollow casting provided with a vertically-disposed, cylindrical portion whose lower end flares outwardly and merges into a substantially fiat base portion. rlhe seat frame of the chair (not shown) is connected to a vertically-adjustable stem B that is reciprocatingly mounted in a cylindrical socket member C carried by the base member A and projecting upwardly beyond the upper end of the cylindrical portion of said base member. The socket member C is provided adjacent its lower end with a laterally-projecting flange 1 that rests upon a horizontally-dis posed supporting portion 2 on the base mem.- ber A and which is secured to said supporting portion by means of bolts or other suitable fastening devices 3, as shown in Fig. l. The supporting portion 2 of the base member A is reinforced and strengthened by a number of vertically-disposed webs 4 integrally connected to the portion 2 and to the` `the form of ourinvention herein shown the caplpiece D consists Vof a cast metal shell tof annular' form provided with convexed Louis and State of Missouri, have invented outer surfaces, as shown in Fig. l, said cap piece being retained in position by two long bolts 5 that passupwardly through the supporting portion 2 of the base member A and the lugs 6, so that when thecap piece is ar.

ranged in operative position the lugs 7 will boar upon the upper end of the base memberlA, and f thus limit the downward movementof the cap piece D vrelatively to the base member A when the bolts 5 are tightened.` The lower end portion of the cap piece D telescopes downwardly overwthe upper end of the base member D and the upper end portion of said cap piece projects inwardly toward the stem of the chair so that it serves as a closure for the open upper end of the base member A.

The stem B of the chair is provided with a concentrically arranged sleeve E that projects downwardly through the cap piece D and` which is of such diameter that it will not bear against said cap piece or against the outer surface of the socket member C when the stem B is raised and lowered. Said slee-ve is long enough so that it will not withdraw completely from the cap piece D when the stem moves upwardly to its full lim-it of travel, and the upper end portion of said sleeve is telescoped over a cylindrical part 8 on the stem that serves as a stop or abutment which rests upon the upper end of the socket member C when the stem is in its lowermost position, as shown in Fig, 1. Each of the members A and E is provided with: a coating of baked on enamel so as to impart a smooth exterior nish to said members which can be easily kept clean, and the outer surface'of the cap piece D is either enameled or provided with a highly polis-hed, rust-proof finish. By constructing the chair inthe manner above described we obtain a chair whose lower portion gives the impression of an unbroken or one-piece pedestal when the seat of the chair is raised, due, of course, to the fact that the sleeve E, which is finished the same having their upper ends screwed into lugs as the outer surface of the base member A, hides the stem and the projecting upper portion of the socket member from view. Whether the cap piece D is enameled or pro` vided with a highly-polished finish, it gives the impression of being an integral part of the base member A, because the outer surface a of said cap piece is unmarred or deaced by the fastening devices that retain said cap piece in position. In addition to being more artistic and sanitary than the barber chairs heretofore in general use, our improved chair is more efficient than prior barber chairs of this general type, because the sleeve E prevents dirt from accumulating on the oil-coated stem B 0f the chair and thus gumming up the operating mechanism that raises and lowers the seat of the chair.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A barber chair, comprising a base member provided with a horizontally-disposed supporting portion, a socket member arranged inside of said base member and provided with apart that laps over and rests upon said supporting portion, a vertically-adjustable stem that slides in -said socket member, a` concentrically arranged sleeve on said stem that projects downwardly into the base member and surrounds said socket member, a cap piece tclescoped over the upper end of said base member, and fastening devices passing upwardly through the supporting portion on the base member and screwed into lugs on the underside of said cap piece.

2. A barber chair, comprising a base member, a socket member arranged inside of said base member and projecting upwardly beyond the upper end of same, a verticallyadjustable stem in said socket member provided at its upper end with a cylindrical portion that serves as a stop which rests upon the upper end of the socket member when said stem is depressed, a sleeve telescoped over the cylindrical portion of the stem and projecting downwardly over said socket member, the outer surface of said sleeve and base member having a smooth exterior finish of the same character, a cap piece at the upper end of the base member provided with an unbroken exterior, fastening devices for said cap piece screwed into lugs on the underside of same, and lugs or wings on the underside of said cap piece that rest upon the upper edge of the base member of the chair.

WALTER F. KOKEN. GEORGE G. ANDERSON.

copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

